“Recent news events put seeking asylum back front and centre for yet another election campaign,” said Central Coast for Social Justice spokesperson, Ms Jo Merrick.
“So our screening of the movie for Refugee Week on June 24 increases in significance but we need more tickets reserved to secure the event. Forbes magazine described producer-director Eva Orner’s documentary, Open Day at Wyoming Wyoming Community Centre and Garden is holding an open day to celebrate Neighbourhood Centre Week on Saturday, May 7.
The day will include activities for youth and older community members. There will be live music, eco printing and re- purposing demonstrations, a sausage sizzle, Devonshire tea and a Mothers’ Day stall with gifts. Media release, Apr 21, 2016 Wyoming Community Centre ‘Chasing Asylum’ as a “searing indictment of successive Australian Government’s’ policies which have banished thousands of asylum seekers to two detention camps on remote Pacific Islands and Cambodia.
In the interview, Ms Orner said she hoped the film, which had its world premiere in Toronto, Canada on April 28, would “prompt Australians to demand the scrapping of the mandatory detention camps on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and in the Republic of Nauru. “I hope this film helps to educate and galvanise people to stand up and say this is unacceptable and to pressure the government to change its policies,” Ms Orner said.
Facebook, Apr 28, 2016 Jo Merrick, Central Coast for Social Justice